Announcement: To see an overview of all the holds in this forum, see this page. You cannot directly add your hold by attaching it here - you must get your hold approved by Hold Administrators. Check this thread for details.

Even though this is Vipual's first hold, it is still pretty good! There are quite a few good rooms, with the first level being some of the best! There is a little bit of weird scripting, but the puzzels make up for that. There are also a few new and original ideas, and a few puzzels will make you think just a bit.

This is an above average first hold. Bonus for that. Coming from a beta tester, I give this hold a 3.5 brains, and 7 overall. I'll be looking forward to your second hold!

As a beta-tester, I honestly found a lot of bugs with it, but I think Vipul learned quite a lot about scripting from this hold. I also think that it turned out being pretty good for a first hold.
I gave it a 7 with 3 and 1/2 brains. Keep up the good work.

This is a nice hold. It's a good mixture of everything ; different themes, different styles.... It was fun playing and it's definitly one of the slightly better "first-timer" holds. Particulary I liked the scripting... it's well done. What I missed were well placed checkpoints and I also disliked some unfair spots (the goblin attak after the secret room in the last level...).

I think all in all this hold deserves 6(+) points and 3,5 brains. [Last edited by MeckMeck GRE at 03-08-2007 05:36 PM]

There are a lot of fun rooms in here. And in contrast, there are rooms in which roaches appear at random. I hated those rooms; it made it impossible to plan out a strategy of any sort, and optimizing felt like a matter of pure chance. (I also thought hiding orbs under NPCs was a little, well, mean.)

As an somewhat less than average ability player, I found this hold to be interesting and rather play-able. However, there were several rooms that really needed checkpoints. The last four rooms where a pain in the backside to play several times.

I don't worry about optimizing, so found the "appear out of nowhere" roaches a great part of the puzzles, though I almost wore out my backspace key!

You know what? I just realized something about the title of this hack... wait, did I just actually type hack? I meant hold. Funny coincidence, since VIP is also the name of a SMW romhack made by 2ch. Which may itself just be coincidence, but ah well.